Combination shade and curtain hanger



Patented Dec. 23, 192.

JOHN P. MAHONEY, OF AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 MICHEAL 3. DONOI-IUE, OF AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK.

COMBINATION SHADE AND CURTAIN HANGER.

Application filed March 28, 1922. Serial No. 547,502.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. MAHoNnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Amsterdam, in the county of Montgomery and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Shade and Curtain Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hangers or brackets for shades as well as for curtains and the main object of the invention is to provide hangers of this class, which are constructed to support curtains and shades simultaneously without any interference to the free working of the latter.

Another object of the invention is to furnish hangers, that will take any length of curtain poles and shade rollers or in other words, hangers that will equally well fit wide and narrow windows and doors.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a top plan view of the device assembled and secured against a window frame;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the brackets.

Reference numeral 10 denotes the top of the window frame to which. brackets 11 and 12 are secured by means of screws 13. These brackets are preferably made of thin sheet metal, stamped out and flanged to form a securing member 14, which is bent at right angles to the arm of the bracket. These securing members are preferably bent in opposite directions on the two brackets as indicated in Figure 1, that is to say that both point inwardly, when secured on the frame. It will be evident, that by shifting these two brackets further apart along the front face of the frame 10 they will be made to accommodate different lengths of shade rollers and curtain poles.

In Figure 1, the brackets are shown supporting a straight telescopic curtain pole 17 arranged in front of the shade.

A shade 18 is wound around an ordinary shade roller 19 with a cylindrical journal 20 at one end rigidly secured in the roller and another journal 21 at the other end, which has a flat outer end and cylindrical inner a:

protection for the same.

29 is provided with an aperture 30 for one end of the roller and a slot 31 for the other end of the shade roller at the extreme end of the bracket so that the shade roller is carried away from the window or door frame. The curtain pole is provided with apertures 16 for engaging over a finger 82 near the inner end of the bracket.

The finger 32 is preferably bent double or provided with a depending lip 35, which, being flexible, will engage tightly in the apertures 16 of the curtain pole 17, so that the latter will not be disengaged or jump off from the vibrations caused by the roll ing of the shade roller.

The slot 31 for the flat ended journal of the shade, is shown with shoulders 34. which are provided for the purpose of better securing the journal. It will be evident that the latter in this case engages beneath one of these shoulders and will thus be prevented from jumping out.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A curtain and shade roller bracket consisting of a flat plate having a lateral vertical flange at one end and provided at its opposite end in its upper edge with a notch to receive a shade roller journal, the plate being further provided in its upper edge with a notch to receive the end of a curtain pole, and a finger rising from the base of said notch between the side walls thereof to enter an opening in the pole, said finger having a downturned free end at the inner side of the plate.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOHN P. MAHONEY. [n s.]

In the particular embodiment shown in Figure 5, the bracketv 

